We (‘Spice’ and ‘Magellan’) are a newly retired couple with a passion for active independent travel. One of our first trips after turning 65 was to Spain, which explains its melodious word for retirees—jubilados—in our tagline. What will you get by taking vicarious trips with us? Ideas, insight and inspiration.
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– “Up to the Monte Piana” Imposing and glorious peaks like gothic cathedrals, a sacred silence a dizzy primordial beauty. The wind whispers with mistery
Looking at art in the street or on gallery walls in Mexico City and Oaxaca, we couldn’t help but notice the predominance of playful images
“You didn’t go to the Blue Lagoon?” a friend exclaimed, astonished. Not surprising, given Teetotaller Beach is across the road from where we live, and
From the train station in the Piedmont town of Canelli where Martina arranged to meet us, we follow her in her car down a rough
Can you imagine what it was like for the first expedition team to summit Mount Mckinley (now called Denali), 110 years ago on June 7,
Ginny Hill Wood, co-founder of Camp Denali, offers some sage advice in her autobiography: Take your temperature of the well-being of your life. If you
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